training, accountancy, “We have succeeded I BEYOND
IT and small business think because we are cloud
management. quite brave. We’ve been
careful with our money
Then there is a web but we’ve made good
agency called SiftGroups acquisitions with the
‘
for membership result that we punch
organisations and We have above our weight.”
charities; PracticeWEB, succeeded I
a platform-based web think because Big hitting
and content service we are quite It has helped that
for accountancy firms brave. We’ve Priscott has formed
and financial advisors; been careful a strong working
and AccountingWEB, a with our money partnership with Sift’s
flagship community for but we’ve founder and chief
accounting professionals made good executive Ben Heald,
in the UK and US. acquisitions forged in the course
with the result of Sift’s “various
High scoring that we punch acquisitions and cash
Founded at the start of above our adventures”.
the dot com boom of
the late nineties, Sift
has maintained a high
weight
’
Steven Priscott,
Finance Director,
Says Priscott: “You’ve
got to be careful with
run rate over the past Sift Media acquisitions. You have
sixteen years and grew got to have integration,
a respectable 10% last alignment and an
year. “Not bad in these advantage from the deal.
times,” observes Priscott. It is advisable to set up
“They have been tough, a special team to handle
but because there are the integration process.
so many possibilities We have bought a few
out there, our biggest companies in that way
challenge has been and they have fitted in
picking the right one. well.”
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